Category Archives: election subversion risk

“Oath Keepers Leader Sought to Ask Trump to Unleash His Militia”

May 5, 2022, 7:10 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Even as the beleaguered police were still trying to disperse a violent mob at the Capitol last January, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, undertook a desperate, last-ditch effort to keep President Donald J.… Continue reading

Dahlia Lithwick on Celebrity Journalism and the Inability to Communicate Effectively About the Risks of Election Subversion

May 2, 2022, 11:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

Spot-on Dahlia Lithwick, pivoting off the White House Correspondents dinner: All of which leads us to the second category error. It’s not merely that the American free press is not quite as free as we’d prefer to believe, but… Continue reading

“Republican election-deniers elevate races for secretary of state”

May 1, 2022, 7:33 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: States United Action, a nonpartisan advocacy organization co-founded by Whitman, has been tracking secretary of state races and identified nearly two dozen Republican candidates who deny the results of the 2020 presidential election.That includes John Adams, a former… Continue reading

“Evidence mounts of GOP involvement in Trump election schemes”

May 1, 2022, 7:31 pmchicanery, election subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

AP: Since launching its investigation last summer, the Jan. 6 panel has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks before the insurrection. Members have asked three GOP lawmakers — Jordan of Ohio, Rep.… Continue reading

One point about Judge Luttig’s new CNN piece

April 27, 2022, 11:19 amelection subversion riskNed Foley

Nothing in recent months has altered my assessment of the risk of an attempt to subvert the outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and therefore I applaud Judge Luttig for vociferously sounding the alarm in his new CNN essay.… Continue reading

Must-read CNN Oped by Judge Luttig: “The Republican blueprint to steal the 2024 election”

April 27, 2022, 6:59 amchicanery, election subversion risk, electoral college, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Judge Luttig: That objective is not somehow to rescind the 2020 election, as they would have us believe. That’s constitutionally impossible. Trump’s and the Republicans’ far more ambitious objective is to execute successfully in 2024 the very same plan… Continue reading

“McCarthy Feared G.O.P. Lawmakers Put ‘People in Jeopardy’ After Jan. 6”

April 27, 2022, 6:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, feared in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack that several far-right members of Congress would incite violence against other lawmakers, identifying several by name as security risks in private conversations… Continue reading

“Robin Vos extends Michael Gableman’s Wisconsin election review after pressure from Donald Trump”

April 27, 2022, 6:50 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is extending the taxpayer-funded contract of the former state Supreme Court justice leading a review of the 2020 election — a decision announced a day after former President Donald Trump sought to intimidate… Continue reading

“CNN Exclusive: Meadows’ texts reveal new details about the key role a little-known GOP congressman played in efforts to overturn election”

April 26, 2022, 2:24 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

CNN: Newly obtained text messages and recent court filings fill in significant gaps about the key role a little-known Pennsylvania Republican congressman played at almost every turn in scheming to reverse or delay certification of the 2020 election.… Continue reading

“New Details Underscore House G.O.P. Role in Jan. 6 Planning”

April 26, 2022, 6:51 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

NYT: It was less than two weeks before President Donald J. Trump’s staunchest allies in Congress would have what they saw as their last chance to overturn the 2020 election, and Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, was growing… Continue reading

“Trump turns up the heat on Wisconsin Republican leader Robin Vos to keep Gableman election probe alive”

April 26, 2022, 6:50 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports: Former President Donald Trump again has the state’s most powerful Republican in his crosshairs, seeking to intimidate Assembly Speaker Robin Vos into continuing a taxpayer-funded review of the 2020 election that has not produced evidence… Continue reading

“Building the ‘Big Lie’: Inside the Creation of Trump’s Stolen Election Myth”

April 26, 2022, 6:45 amelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

ProPublica deep dive: Salazar’s story was just one of many pieces of so-called evidence that members of the coalition have offered as proof that the 2020 election was rigged. That unfounded belief has emerged as one of the most… Continue reading

“Republicans Have Picked An Election Denier To Run Michigan’s Elections”

April 23, 2022, 9:40 pmelection subversion risk, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

BuzzFeed: Michigan Republicans endorsed Kristina Karamo, a first-time candidate who has spread lies about the 2020 election, to run all the state’s elections as the party’s candidate for secretary of state.Karamo is one of at least 17 election deniers running… Continue reading

“Greene says she can’t remember if she urged Trump to impose martial law”

April 22, 2022, 4:25 pmelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, testifying Friday about her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a case seeking to disqualify her from seeking reelection, said she could not remember… Continue reading